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Sunday, August 13, 2017

from CB Concord New Hampshire

I give this five stars. It is a real page turner. It remind me of works by Alistair MacLean. I learned a great deal of macro history about the time period. I love the characters and the plot moves at a feverish pace. Go get a copy you won't be able to put it down.

Tuesday, August 8, 2017

The Dahlem Initiative was announced to 150,000 emails on bargainbooksey

The Dahlem Initiative ($3.99) by E.J. Egerton: During the last two weeks of World War II in Europe, the Americans discovered that the Nazis developed a method to enrich Uranium and make an A-bomb better than anyone else. Two men are set into Berlin-Dahlem to secure the technology and inventors before the Red Army can capture it.

Wednesday, June 28, 2017

The Dahlem initiative made me realize how little I knew about the politics, science, and military efforts involved in our race to nuclear power. This book is a fast paced thriller that provides that history through the eyes of Berliners, spies, scientists, Russian NKVD personnel, and two American physicist/spy/solders. The history is fabulous, The personal aspects realistic.

Friday, June 23, 2017

he Dahlem Initiative popped up on my you should read this, might like this book. Egerton is a new author so I thought I would give it a go. I am really happy I did. From the beginning the book had me hooked. The character development was fantastic, the interaction between Sheridan and Cook are visual. Its historical fiction and even knowing that, you can still believe this is happening; the attention to detail and the science involved makes it very realistic and believable. The back and forth during all of the missions makes a compelling read that left me unable to put the book down. I highly recommend this book to anyone looking for a good historical fiction or political thriller.PRGSouth Dakota

World War Two is ending in Europe.The alliance between the United States and the Soviet Union is unraveling.Both countries are racing to acquire a Atomic Bomb.
The Nazis have created an process using an ultracentrifuge which produces highly enriched Uranium.Two American Counter-Intelligence Agents, Josh Sheridan and John Cook are sent to infiltrate a Nazi submarine U-398, which is transporting enriched Uranium to Germany’s ally, Japan.The two men capture the sub and verify that the Uranium is sufficiently enriched to make a A-bomb.
Within twenty four hours after the mission on the sub, the two men are sent to the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute in Dahlem, a suburb of Berlin. Their orders are to capture the enrichment process inventors and the ultracentrifuge.
Their team contains a Soviet Mole.
They have six days to complete their mission before the Red Army surrounds Berlin and cuts off their escape.

U-398 was ordered to operate west of the English Channel and was not seen or
heard of after sailing from Kristiansand in the evening of 17 April 1945. It
was posted as missing after failing to return to port or signal its position
after the cessation of hostilities.

Wilhelm Cranz

Oberleutnant zur See (R) (entry, Jahrgang X/39)

No ships sunk or damaged.

Born

19 Apr 1915

Kiel

Died

17 Apr 1945

(29)

British Isles

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U-boat Commands

Wilhelm Cranz sailed on his first patrol as commander when he took his Type VIIC boatU-398 out from Horten, Norway on 14 April 1945 (Busch & Röll, 1997). His boat
went missing on or after 17 April in the North Sea (Niestlé, 1998). He would
have been 30 years old few days later.